AuthorTopic: Velocityquest II (Read 87950 times)

You are suspended in darkness, bare, starving, thirsty, broken. You slowly begin to descend, a sea of stars appearing beneath you. The stars are so numerous, so expansive, and appear in such great density that they make the void beneath you light up in complete whiteness. You gain velocity, speed, accelerating, stars rushing past you, until you feel that you are traveling at the speed of light. Slowly the stars fade away, and you begin to dimly become aware that you are not traveling at the speed of light, you are actually quite stationary. You aren't zooming past stars either, your face is on the ground. However, you do feel thirsty, starved, and heavily injured. You open your eyes, blurred vision obscuring lighted text floating in front of your face. You slowly wake up, your body encased by a suit of battle armor, capable of withstanding heavy abuse. Your helmet visor is cracked, the last message your HUD displayed is stuck on the screen.

Looking around, you see a muddy landscape, patches of green scattered around. A purple flower rests in the light of two moons, illuminating the sky. The landscape around you is littered with dead bodies, dressed in battle armor similar to yours. However, there are two distinctive shapes and patterns. You think you're dressed in armor with a silver coloring, streamlined around your body. Some corpses share this armor, but you see that about half of them are of a different species, with a more pronounced hunch, and claws of some kind, feral legs, like those of the wolf. They seem to have some kind of natural carapace as well, but the most defining feature is an extra set of arms.

It appears that the enemy wore armor with a tan color, streamlined, but with black stripes, and thicker armor.

You crawl over to your weapon, feeling a heavy pain whenever your left leg shifts even slightly. You hear a beeping in your ears, perhaps a warning system in your armor. You pick up the assault rifle, finding it to be completely empty. You're not going to be able to walk, you think your leg is broken in multiple places.

After a moment, you are startled by a loud BANG, someone discharging a weapon into what you assume to be an injured soldier.

The thing moves over the hill, into view. It appears to be one of the non-human combatants, on the enemy side. It stops and nudges a body of one of your fallen soldiers with its foot, and watches it intently for several seconds before moving on to a corpse several meters away from you.

Your leg stings, and you think it may have heard you, seeing as how it looks in your direction immediately afterward. It begins to cautiously move toward you, an exotic mandible becoming apparent, four sharp extensions on each corner of its mouth flexing outward.

Two people come up to you. One is in white and red armor, and is one of the creatures that you are unfamiliar with. The other is in blue armor, and is human. They both carry assault rifles, you hear a third person in the vehicle, talking over a radio. The vehicle appears to be a large transport vehicle, and is also armed with a heavy machine gun.

"Left leg... in a lot of pain, and I can't really rememeber a lot. I think I fell from something, a ship?"Look to the alien."If we're fighting these aliens, why are you on our side? And.. what is your species called again? I'm just... ugh... Not a good day."

"He's delirious," says the alien in a gruff, scratchy voice."Come on, son. We need to get you out of here."

You are picked up and put into a chamber in the back of the vehicle, the alien removes your helmet and begins hooking your suit up to a medical system, applying a moist paste to your mouth that quenches your thirst and assuages your hunger. "We will get back to base shortly, we're going to look for more survivors."